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(music throughout) On October 20th, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft 

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collected a sample from asteroid Bennu.

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Navigation. Nav is go for TAG.

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Program Manager. Program Manager is go for TAG

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All stations, this is OREx systems on OREx cord, all subsystems are go for TAG.

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Position uncertainty is 0.5 meters

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(clapping) predicted TAG lateral offset is 1.7 meters

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Hazard probability is zero percent

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OSIRIS-REx’s sampling mechanism penetrated Bennu’s regolith 

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and fired its nitrogen gas bottle to stir up sample material for collection in the TAGSAM head.

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At 6:08pm EDT, the team on Earth received confirmation of a successful touchdown.

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OREx has descended below the five meter mark

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the hazard map is go for TAG

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and we have touchdown! (cheering)

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After spending approximately 6 seconds at the surface, 

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OSIRIS-REx fired its thrusters and backed away from sample site Nightingale.





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Images taken a few days later by the SamCam camera showed rocks and dust 

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escaping the sampler head. 

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The team believed it collected a sufficient sample and decided to seal 

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the TAGSAM to preserve the remaining material. 

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The spacecraft made one more flyover of Bennu and saw

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just how big a mark it left on the asteroid’s surface. 

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The TAG event sent boulders flying across Nightingale’s surface.

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OSIRIS-REx completed its last flyover of Bennu at around 6 am EDT on April 7th 2021

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and slowly began drifting away from the asteroid.

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On May 10th, 2021, OSIRIS-REx fired its thrusters 

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and began its two-year cruise back home to Earth.  

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As OSIRIS-REx approaches Earth, it will jettison 

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the Sample Return Capsule that contains pieces from asteroid Bennu.

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The SRC will then travel through Earth’s atmosphere 

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and land under parachutes at the Utah Test and Training Range on September 24, 2023.

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Once recovered, the capsule will be transported to the curation facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, 

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where the sample will be removed for distribution to laboratories worldwide,  

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enabling scientists to study the formation of our Solar System and Earth as a habitable planet.